Author Topic: Bios for dummies (Read 415 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** July 04, 2002, 09:11:44 AM »

I want to change the AGP aperture on my Geforce 3 to 128 or 256, however, I see nothing in the bios pertaining to that, any clues?

I picked up a whopping 2 FPS going from a 32 meg. Geforce 2 to a 128 meg. Geforce 3.

I think I found my bottleneck (P3-800EB)

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2002, 09:17:33 AM »

I've done a bios post looooooooooooooonng time ago I'll try to dig it

straffo · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2002, 09:20:57 AM »

hum ...
it was in the other BBS system ...
wich brand of bios do you have Award ? AMI ?

it should be somewhere in the chipset configuration

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2002, 09:31:01 AM »

AwardBios

PIII-800EB intel chip
VA6 motherboard
256k PC-133 ram
Geforce 3 128 meg card, with Nvidia 28.XX drivers (latest)

straffo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2002, 09:48:51 AM »

here we are :

At POST (during boot) press the "supp" key to enter the bios then chose the "chipset Feature Setup" the last line should be about AGP aperture .

btw if you've not done it re-installing your video drivers will perhaps increase your FPS ...

Ripsnort · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2002, 10:03:33 AM »

Thks Straffo, thats one area of the bios I didn't check. I'll try re-installing the drivers after.

Griego · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2002, 09:15:06 AM »

I've read some where that with the new cards setting apeture size higher than 64mbs is a waste of time. It said there is no need to do that since the card has enough memory if it has more than 32mb of ram.

I've done this my self and set it to 256 and 128 and now it set back at 64 it seem to give me the best FPS.

Set your Generic IDE Disk type47 to DMA
you will find this in Device Manger.
right click my computer go to Device Manger then to Disc Drives
Right click Generic IDE Disk type47 then Properties then Setting and check DMA only then ok out. This seemed to Help me with FPS alittle.

Other small registry changes I've done
in [386 Enh]
i set MinPagingFileSize=131072
MaxPagingFileSize=131072
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1
32bitDiskAccess=on
DMABufferSize=64
PageBufferSize=32

in [Vcache]
in MinFileCache=16384
MaxFileCache=65536
ChunkSize=512

System ini
i set LoadLocalHigh=1

windows 98 1st edition
k7t turbo mobo
384mb of SDRam
Geforce2 Pro 64mb ddr
19" monitor
1024x768 res 32bit
1.3Ghz AMD duron

Maybe you can find some of these useful
All ways back up registry before making any changes to registry.

but what helped the most in getting FPS up is the new 1.3gHz Processor. upgraded from a 600mhz duron

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2002, 12:08:02 PM »

Thanks for the post Griego!

fuzeman · « **Reply #8 on:** July 11, 2002, 02:10:59 AM »

From what I know [and we won't go into how much that is

] I thought the AGP aperature should be set to 1/2 your ram. This comes from the people I bought my rig from. I just doubled my ram from 128 to 256Mb and the only setting he/they said I really needed to adjust was that one.

Just a thought,
fuzeman